Synonyms for World War I
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1. World War Inoun

   Synonyms:
   Great War, First World War, war to end all wars

2. World War Inoun

   The war from 1914 to 1918 between the Entente Powers of the British Empire, Russian Empire, France, Italy, the United States and other allied nations, against the Central Powers represented by Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria.

   Synonyms:
   Great War, First World War, war to end all wars

Princeton's WordNet

1. World War I, World War 1, Great War, First World War, War to End Warnoun

   a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918

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1. Peggy Noonan, special assistant and speech writer to Reagan, 1984-88:

   The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

2. Lisel Hintz:

   The border World War I refers to -- the Turkish-Syria border -- was established in 1923 with the Treaty of Lausanne and the founding of the Republic of Turkey. The exception to this is the province of Hatay, which passed from Syrian to Turkish control following a referendum.

3. Brian Stelter:

   That was a logical move when, you know, there was this world war. I think now the message is, this is a global franchise, this is a franchise looking to the future, and that kind of ethnonationalism, you know, perhaps is not the right style going forward.

4. Hollie Adams/Getty Images:

   A lot of Americans say, hey, you know what, we bailed out Europe in World War I; we bailed out Europe in World War II; we kind of don’t want to do it again, whereas others take the view of, if we’re not strong now on saying the West is united, it is an open door, not just to Putin, but perhaps, even more worryingly, to China as well.

5. James Mattis:

   The intent was to stop the cycle of violence into an area that even in World War II chemical weapons were not used on battlefields, even in the Korean War, they were not used on battlefields. Since World War I, there has been an international convention on this and to stand idly by when the convention is violated -- that is what we had to take action on recently in our own vital interest.